The Daily Telegraph has become the latest news publisher to sign up to Apple's strict terms on digital subscriptions with its new iPad app.

The app is free to download but charges readers £1.19 for a single edition, or £9.99 for a monthly subscription. Telegraph newspaper subscribers get full access to its iPad edition for free. The Telegraph's upgraded iPad app features letters, cartoons, galleries and puzzles – all of which were missing in the first version.

The Telegraph Media Group title has adhered to Apple's contentious terms for digital subscriptions, which allow the technology company to keep 30% of all the fees from subscriptions as well as all of the lucrative customer details.

Hearst, the US publisher behind Esquire and O, the Oprah Magazine, on Wednesday became the first major publisher to announce it would sell subscriptions to its magazines on the iPad.

A spokeswoman for Hearst said the company struck a "equitable and fair deal for both sides" with Apple and that it was a "fair agreement in terms of sharing the data and owning the customers together".

No further details are available about the deal struck between Apple and the Telegraph, although the US tech firm is notoriously stubborn about its terms of business.

Once the new paid-for Telegraph app is downloaded, all of its content – including video – can be viewed without an internet connection. Downloaded editions will be kept for a maximum of 30 days, but subscribers can also purchase back issues published from Wednesday 4 May.

The app – which took about five months to build, using the Times's developer TigerSpike – is consistent in design with the print edition, but also features two high-resolution picture galleries a day, seven days' cartoons and two interactive crossword puzzles.

Separately, the Telegraph is understood to be developing a new version of its iPhone app after many users found that it no longer worked after the upgrade in February.

Rupert Murdoch became the first publisher to adopt Apple's subscription terms when he launched iPad newspaper the Daily in February. The Daily has been downloaded about 800,000 times since its launch, with no figures yet given its subscriber numbers.

Most UK national newspapers have released iPad editions, although the Telegraph now joins the Times in charging a subscription as opposed to being free or requiring a one-off payment.

Like the iPad editions of the Independent's i and the Times, the Telegraph's app is only updated once a day, at 5am London time. The Guardian, which is part of the group that publishes MediaGuardian.co.uk, is also developing an iPad app.

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